Scott Thompson Show

The Hamilton Today Podcast with Scott Thompson: Coming up on April now, and who will be the great April fool? According to the feds, it’s those who drink! 6.2% increase in taxes on beer and spirits set for April 1st. In a recent piece that ran in the Hamilton Spectators, some local microbreweries – like Fairweather Brewing – are saying it won’t have any marketable impact on their product, even if they are not happy with the tax existing. But that may come down to a personal choice for the businesses. Franco Terrazzano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation gives Scott the skinny. Dr. Ian Lee, Sprott School of Business, helps Scott answer the question of how will China’s relations – particularly business relations – with Canada and other nations change due to their strengthening ties with Russia, a nation whose leader now has an ICC arrest warrant hanging over his head? Telford to testify!! That’s the breaking news this afternoon out of the ongoing story of potential foreign interference by the CCP. Tim Powers o